According to Richard Clarke, the former White House counterterrorism chief, Bush was so obsessed with Iraq that he failed to take action against Osama Bin Laden despite repeated warnings from his intelligence experts.

I think it's a pity that in many people's minds constitutional reform and PR have come to mean much the same thing.

One of the unsung freedoms that go with a free press is the freedom not to read it.

Sexual relations, of course, have existed, exist, and will exist. However, this is in no way connected with the indispensability of the existence of the family.

A majority in all parties do, I think, want to see local government recover its old vigour and independence.

Francis Wheen takes a hugely enjoyable sweep through the tangled thickets of superstition and gullibility in which modern man likes to ramble. He takes particular delight in reminding us how easily fools are parted from their money and how many of them there are.

No constitution is or can be perfectly symmetrical, what it can and must be is generally accepted as both fair and usable.